The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-05

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SheE E sh1 ss wits hs{S %hp ha'ss e ssoeSs saf
,hayog scoalgsd' athis ssiokediiess and
have ftried toschees him 1when doing, right,
,ond! YET 4hanh co4ll,elled toF testify on athc
my mission, y! Oh, how i,iahy, cups Of life
have r pressed to his" lips that no dashed
down, tand1 how often hos the stood with his
/ hard heel on tho blesding'heart Of Tho son" Of
! God! - 1t pains inc very much that havo to
testify Hgeipst r this GGrstieh rnaI, apd YETI I
clear tho guilty, say that this Christian man
has done wrongsY HeThas been worldly ITo
has been negleStful., !Ho has done o thousand
things, he ought not, TO- have done, and left
updone q thousand things lie ought to havo
dono:" lThatSwill do, 'cohscienco. jYoucen
! The,thiri Witness Icall,in atho case, Is an
Angel Of God. Bright. .and shining ono, what
S9ss S9S tA2H Ss hSsS' ! has ho?t ~ tIoa
angel ,f"I have been messenger to him. I
| have guarded him. / have watched him.
i With this wings bhavo defended him, and
oftentilpes Hhen 10 know it not II led him
wate&rss:$ I santthed trom lin TIC poisoned poi
clalfess.a When bad spirits camo upon him
to destroyA him tfoughtS them back with
infinite 81 tferceness;a Iand yet II have to
testify day that ;he, bps rejected my mis-.
done! Though 1 ca,no n from TIE SKY he drove
mo back! Though %itht this wing i defended
him, and thoughG with 4this voice I wooed
4 him, haye,to announce his multiplied JIM
perfections, Il dare not keep. back the testi-
mony, for then should not dare to appear
again amongst tthe sialess ones before tho
white throne no'i3 Hr@' 81 "HH - .
There is only one moro witness to be called
on behalf Of tho prosecption, and that is tho
great, the holy, the. taugu august, the omnipotent
Spirit Of God. We bow down before Him
Holy Spirit, Riowest thou tits mani |"Oh,
yes" says the holy ono, "I know him. have
striven, with btm' ten, thousand times, and
though sometimes no did seem. to repent, he
fell back again as, often from his first estate.
Ten thousand tfnes' ten Thousand, has he
grieved Me, although tho Bible warned him
saying: 'Grleve not the Holy Ghost: Quonch
not tho spirit, Yes, ,,ho has .dpiven Me back
Though I am the third person of the, Trinity
he has trampled on my mission, and tho blood
Of tho atohement that Brought with which
to cleanse his soul, lfe sometimes despised. I
came from lthe.throne Of God to convort, and
comfort, and Sanctify and yet look at that
man, and SEQ what he Is compared with what,
unresisted, I would have made him" 80 -,
The evidence on tho part of tho prosecution
has closed. Now lot the defense bring on tho
rebuttal testimony. What have you, o
Christian soul, to bring in reply to this evi-
dence OF the World, Of the, Conscience, Of tho
Angel and OF she Holy NGhostf No ovidencoa
Are all these things truei ayes, unclean, un-
clean," says every Christian soul Whata
1 Do you not begin TO trenblo at tho thought
Of condemnatiopt E'.' HG' ,-.'a -. ,
We have como now = to tho II most interesting
part Of this great trial?! Tho evidence all in,
tho advocates speak. The profession of an
advocate is fdil of pnsiblity n 1mfF5eland
and tho United stat5@esh tat5 eshero have arisen mon
VINO IN tS''calling have been honored by
ths' rqco and thrown cpntenlpt' upon those !
who IN the profession have beon guilty Of a
great many hneannesses That profession
win DO : honorable as long as it has
attached. to II such names rs Mansfield, and
Marshall and Story, and Kent" and South
ard and William Writ The court room has
sometimes been the scene Of very marvellous
and thrilling SthingsS Some Of You Eremembor.
the famous sGirard will case, yvhero ono of
our advocates pleaded the cause of tho Bible
and Christianity in mnstcrly Anglo-Saxon,
every paragraph, a thunderbol&. g.nI g.,
Sonio OF you have read;of tho famous trial
| in Westminster hall of w arreh Hastings, the
despoiler Of Infia.a That great man had con-
quered India by splendid talents, by courage,
by brides, by gigantic dishonesty, lThow
world had yFulig with applause or eondemna7
tion. Gathered in Westminster, hall was ono!
Of the most famous, audiences ever gathered.
Foreign ministers and princes Eat there.
Peers .l1larched ninS clad N Der,nihe and-gold.
Mighty men ana .,taofnheh from kall lands
looked down upon tho scene. Amid oil that
pomp and sp1endor,y and amid an excitement
such = as 0 has Seldom 0'been Fseon In any
court room jry Edmund b Burke advanced;
In apeach xul,fc}fs SSsyf1f 4 80
| the iEnglish, language; concluding with this
burning charge, which made. Warren Hast
| ings ecringe aud 3coweri rsIimpeach him In
| the name ,of,tho Commons: house OF parlia~
ment, whoso trust 6e. hos betrayed L I'M
| peach him III tho name of the. English nation,
whose anciopt honor he has sullied. i'm
peace him IN tho nanie, of THO people of India,
whose rights he has trampled on, and whose
country ho hIs turned ViftoS a desert. And;
lastly;:in the1 name Of hi,fian naturo In tho
name OF both sexes, in tho iia.ne 6f every age
aud rank 4sinIpeaol him, tho CON pn1on enc
my and oppressor of allsn 4sy67nns ;,rfssr -"
But turn from tho .recitai Of thesd fhem-
| orablo occasions to a grander, trial, md I
hayo to. tell you that in this trinl OF the
l. Christian for tho life Of his soul tho advo-
Gates arc mightier, visor and moTo eloquent.
Tho evidence alls being in, f+J ustico rises
on behnlf@of the prosecution to mako lis
| plea.s With the, E1ble, open in his. hand ho
reads the law, stern and infoxiblc. and tho
penalty sThe soul that 'sinncth it shall die"
ThepSheisaysg u "O'th9ps judge npd lawgiver,
this is thine own stdtdto, and ali tho ovi-
dence in earth and heaven agrees in stating
that this mdli has 'finhed ngainst'all these on
aetn,ents. Z. .Now,let the sword,zlealj from its
i scabbard. sShall;a ln,fn ed tlh'ough tho very
l flames OF Sinai rGnsingedss Lot tho law be-
executed > 1ets Judgment 2bo, pronouticcd.
.Lothiin diee sRdeman,i that ho die" .7au
% o ChrlstianS doesit notebook very dark for
theef Who viii Ilead On thy sido IN SO for
lorn a cause7,. Sometimes a NAH will DO
brought into e,couft 81 law, and ho will 7havo
no. friends and nosmqney, and the Judge will
look over the bar and say:s . s"Is thero any ono
who will volunteer, TO- ytako this mars case
and defend hini1' and,some young man rises
up and says; ~ will bo his counsel, ), perhaps